One Week Left....

I present you: My Pumpkins!

Alright. It's something.....

My latest postcard mailer design.

And now she has a king...or the king has her.

Marketing Tuesday & Thoughts of the Day:  

While following my dream as an artist, I've been working on this 'Weird Creatures Museum' as a theme. I've also been brainstorming a product line to accompany this theme. I've been thinking of the possibility of designing face cards, perhaps making them more elaborate or non- traditional than the average deck of face cards. So far I've come up with the King and Queen of hearts concept. As far as producing the actual product, that will be a greater challenge. I've been pondering questions like, What type of printing resource should I go with?  Will there be separate set up fees for every different card?, etc. My plan is to come up with a layout for the back of the cards, which of course will have to be the same to maintain suspicion, and then keeping the different numbered suits simple, just like regular face cards, but  coming up with a concept for each King, Queen, and Jack for every suit... which becomes another challenge. This is what makes art and design so much fun. 

It's finished: I present to you, The Zombie Cats.

Halloween is in the air. Though it's still a balmy 85 degrees out here in Utah, and I still have green tomatoes that must get ripe before the frost, I always get Halloween fever early. I always think there is something wrong about playing Christmas tunes in the middle of October, but I have a deep love for Halloween the most. Must be the little pop-surrealist in me and my interest in Tim Burton movies.  My personality is just drawn to Halloween, and it's always the time of year where my creativity is on fire. Anyway, I thought I would avoid the cliche atmosphere about Halloween and go towards the Zombie route, only this time, it's cats. Hope you all have a lovely Halloween this year, stay tuned for more.....

Day 8-9: Getting there, but not quite finished.

Day 7: The pumpkins start to appear.

This has been a rather unexpected eventful week, so it was nice to have a night to paint again. So soothing. Anyway the pumpkins almost look better than the cats, so I'm thinking they could use a bit more work. 

Day 6: Left side almost done